09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
... the 0.6 metre Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, and in all cases the images produced with the new technology maintained a relatively consistent size, shape, and intensity, compared with those using conventional methods, which have...
18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
... Island, China’s southernmost launch site. The rocket was expected to place a classified satellite named XJY 6 or ‘new technology verification satellite-6” into an elliptical, geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) but was unable to deliver the secret...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
...,” says Tim. “With it, we are building on our European heritage in robotic exploration, and at the same time devising new technologies.” The rover will relay data to Earth through the Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft searching for tiny...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... by the generation that develops it. This creates strong personal motivation. Furthermore, in order to create a settlement on Mars, new technologies will be required, such as: energy and resource conservation; full recycling of all waste (the colony...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... spaceships to the harsh radioactive environment of deep space. One of the ways that NASA is testing a number of the new technologies and capabilities that will directly enable future missions to Mars is through the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... this trend and are developing innovative business models to capitalise on it. This new technology and market trend is called “NewSpace”; it describes the new generation of space development, notably commercial, which are disrupting the dynamic...
